CHAPTER 6 - ELEVATORS, DUMBWAITERS, ESCALATORS AND MOVING WALKS
Operating Device - The car switch, push button,
lever or other manual device used to actuate the
control.
Overhead Structure - All the structural members
platforms, etc. supporting the elevator machinery,
sheaves and equipment at the top of the hoistway.
Parking Device, Elevator An electrical or
mechanical device the function of which is permit the
opening from the landing side of the hoistway door at
any landing when the car is within the landing zone of
that landing. The device may also be used to close
the door.
Rope Equalizer, Suspension - A device installed on
an elevator car or countenveight to equalize
automatically the tensions in the suspension wire
ropes.
Rope-Fastening Device, Auxiliary A device
attached to the oar or counterwdight or to the
overhead dead-end rope-hitch support which will
function automatically to support the car or
counterweight in case the regular wire-rope fastening
falls at the point of connection to the car or
counterweight or at the overhead dead-end hitch.
Safety, Self-Resetting - A car or countenrveight
safety released and reset by movement in the up
direction.
Single Automatic, Operation - Automatic operation
by means of one button in the car for each landing
served and one button at each landing, so arrange
that f any car of landing button has been actuated, of
actu.ation of any other cai or landing operating button
will have no effect of the operation of tire car until the
response to the first b0tton has been completed.
Signal Device, Elevator Gar Flush - One providing a
signal light in the car, which is illuminated when the
car approaches the landings at which a landing signal
registering device has been actuated.
Signal System, Elevator - One consisting of buttons
or other devices located at the landing which when
actuated by a waiting passenger illuminate a flash
signal or operate an annunciator in the car indicating
floors at which stops are to be made.
Slack-Rope Switch - A device which automatically
causes the electric power to be removed from thi
elevator driving machine motor and brake when the
suspension ropes of a winding-drum machine become
slack.
Starter Control Panel, Elevator -
An assembly of
devices by means of which the starter may control tha
manner in which an elevator or group of elevators
function.
Static Switching - Switching of circuits by means d
solid state devices.
Stopping Devices, Elevator Landing - A button or
other device, located at an elevator landing which
when actuated, causes the elevator to stop at that
floor.
Terminal Speed Limiting Device, Emergency
device which automatically reduces the speed as a
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approaches a terminal landing, independenfly of the
functioning of the operating device, and the normal..
terminal stopping device, if the latter fail to slow down
the car as intended.
Terminal Stopping Device, Emergency
- A device
which automatically causes the power to be removed
from an electric elevator driving machine motor and
brake at a pre-determined distance from the terminal
Ianding, and independently of the functioning of the
operating device and the normal terminal stopping
devices does not slow down the car as intended.
T_erminal Stopping Device, Machine
Final (Stop
Motion Switch) - A final-terminal stopping device
operated directly by the driving machine.
Terminal Stopping Device, Normal - A device or
devices to slow down and stop an elevator,
dumbwaiter, or material lift car automatically at or near
a terminal landing independenfly of the functioning of
the operating device.
fop Runby (Direct,Plunger Hydraulic Elevator) -
The distance the elevator car can run above its iop
terminal landing before the plunger strikes the
mechanicalstop.
Transom - A panel or panels used to close a
hoistway enclosure opening above a hoistway
entrance.
Travel (Rise) - The vertical distance between the
bottom terminal landing and the top terminal landing of
, an elevator, dumbwaiter, escalator, material lift, or
inclined lift.
Travelling Cable - A cable made up of electric
conductors, which provides electrical connection
between an elevator, dumbwaiter, or material lift car
and fixed outlet in the hoistway or machine room.
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